Listings
March 2020 editions
of Books of the Month LINK
TO PDF and Children & Young Adults Books of the Month LINK
TO PDF from the Quaker Centre Bookshop.
Charney Manor
weekend event:
Finding out about Quakers LINK
TO PDF
Reminder:
‘Prophets and Reconcilers’ conference
10–4pm,
Saturday 25 April 2020, Maria Fidelis Catholic School, London
The Network of
Christian Peace Organisations, of which Quaker Peace & Social Witness is an
active member, is holding a major conference on Christian and spiritual peacemaking
this year. Local and area meetings are encouraged to send delegations.
For information
and to register: https://prophetsandreconcilers.eventbrite.co.uk Daniel
Jakopovich, danielj@quaker.org.uk
Call for trustees
Become a Quaker
Social Action (QSA) trustee
Are you
looking for a small, influential organisation that will make the most of your
time, energy and skills? With 6% of the UK population trapped in deep poverty,
earning at least 50% below the poverty line, there has never been a greater need
for organisations like QSA.
See:
https://quakersocialaction.org.uk/taking-social-action/news/become-qsa-trustee
Climate
justice
Taking action
on COP26
This year,
the UK will host the COP26 UN summit on climate change in Glasgow in November. A
massive show of force is needed by the UK and global climate movements to spur
our governments to meet bolder targets and to place justice at the heart of their
response to climate change. Quaker Peace & Social Witness will be working alongside
Quakers across the country to push for bold leadership on climate justice and
to support the climate movement.
Have you got
plans or ideas for climate justice for 2020? Let us know
we’d like to
work with you!
See the blog
‘Learning and leading: Quaker climate action in 2020’ at:
Climate justice
– a Quaker view
QPSW are
excited to announce that a new leaflet, ‘Climate justice
a Quaker view’
is now available both online and in print. The new leaflet explores what
climate justice means in practice and how QPSW supports Quaker climate action. LINK
TO PDF LEAFLET
Peacebuilding
and human rights
Seeking human
rights monitors
We are
seeking human rights monitors to serve in Palestine and Israel for 3 months in 2021,
with the Ecumenical Accompaniment Programme in Palestine and Israel. You would be
providing protection by presence, monitoring human rights abuses, supporting Israeli
and
Palestinian peace activists and working for an end to the military occupation
of Palestine. See www.quaker.org.uk/applyeappi
LINK
TO PDF LEAFLET
Invitation to
launch of book about Quaker international conciliation work.
6.30pm Thursday
12 March 2020, live stream & at Friends House Quaker Centre Bookshop.
We invite
you to the launch of: ‘Dining with diplomats, praying with gunmen; experiences
of international conciliation for a new generation of peacemakers’, a vital and
fascinating record of a little-known area of Quaker work. See flyer for full
details of booking and live stream.
Grants
QPSW Relief grants
and Simmons grants
QPSW Relief
grant applications (up to £4,000) open in April for peacebuilding work, or for relief
of people who are suffering as a result of natural disasters, climate change, war,
conflict or social and economic deprivation, but not for immediate crisis relief.
Simmons grants (up to £1,500) open in May for projects that work to enable rural
young people overseas to live self-sufficiently.
William Gunn’s
Charity
A letter is
enclosed with information for overseers about William Gunn’s Charity. This
Charity exists to assist individual Members who are in personal financial need
by making grants of money to them or by paying for services and / or items
needed by them.
(Application
forms with Jill, Maura or Lucien and applications can remain confidential via
just 2 of these people if required)
Community building and outreach
A Quaker Life
catalogue of support and resources
A catalogue offering
a rich range of resources, ideas, publications and
people to
help build thriving, intergenerational Quaker communities. Please share with elders,
overseers, Quaker chaplains and those involved in working with children and
young people. LINK
TO PDF
Patterns and
examples events in 2020
Saturday, 2 May
at Lampeter University | Saturday, 30 May at Norwich Quaker Meeting House | Saturday,
27 June at Lancaster Quaker Meeting House
Patterns and
examples are role holder (we do not have
role holders explicitly for our Shared Eldership & Oversight so if someone
has a particular interest please consider going) gatherings for all Quakers
but not aimed at those Friends very new to Quakerism. Come to make friends with
others wishing to learn and explore together.
